RENOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renown mean? 

• RENOWN (noun)
  The noun RENOWN has 1 sense:

1. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

  Familiarity information: RENOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

celebrity; fame; renown

Hypernyms ("renown" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

 Context examples 

Yet my voice, as I know well, should speed you on to glory and renown, not hold you back when fame is to be won.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Dick's renown was not long confined to us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of the ambition to win power and renown for my wretched self, she has formed the ambition to spread my Master's kingdom; to achieve victories for the standard of the cross.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

However, because the Swiss astronomer’s catalogue never achieved wider renown, Messier’s re-discovery of the Omega Nebula in 1764 led to its becoming Messier 17, the seventeenth object in the Frenchman’s popular compendium (eso0925).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

When I had for some time entertained their excellencies, to their infinite satisfaction and surprise, I desired they would do me the honour to present my most humble respects to the emperor their master, the renown of whose virtues had so justly filled the whole world with admiration, and whose royal person I resolved to attend, before I returned to my own country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I answered, laughing, that I thought we might get through it in that time, but that he must come also; for he would find that his renown had preceded him, and that he was almost as great a personage as I was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But if it be your wish to loll and loiter in these glades, bartering glory and renown for vile gold and ill-gotten riches, then ye must find another leader; for I have lived in honor, and in honor I trust that I shall die.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I burnt for the more active life of the world—for the more exciting toils of a literary career—for the destiny of an artist, author, orator; anything rather than that of a priest: yes, the heart of a politician, of a soldier, of a votary of glory, a lover of renown, a luster after power, beat under my curate's surplice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)